Living: According to Emily (1922)

American manners will never again rise to the whale-boned grandeur that
they achieved in the imagination of Emily Post, if not always in the
reality of her time. A sampling of Emily's instructions to the well
bred:

A well behaved young girl goes to public dances only when properly
chaperoned and to a private dance with her mother or else accompanied
by her maid, who waits for her the entire evening in the dressing room.

The fact that you live in a house with two servants, or in an apartment
with only one, need not...